Lewis Griefer
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Lewis Griefer was a writer for television film and radio born 19 December 1919 in London, England, and who died aged 83 on 18 March 2003.
After wartime service in the RAF, he pursued a career in journalism and joined the London Evening Standard. He then dabbled as a writer, with sketches for The Goon Show amongst others. A strong record on television writing in the 1950s and 1960s made his career; and by 1969 he diversified somehwat and devised the panel game show Whodunnit! for the BBC (which was later reformatted and remade by Thames Television as a vehicle for Jon Pertwee).
Lewis Griefer also wrote episodes of The Prisoner, Crossroads, and the initial draft of the Tom Baker Doctor Who story Pyramids of Mars. The latter script had to be radically rewritten by script-editor Robert Holmes, who decided to use the pseudonym Stephen Harris on the final product. Griefer had meanwhile returned to teach at the University of Tel Aviv, and had little contact with television in his remaining years.
